Browsing by Author "Banaji, Mahzarin"
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The Development of Reasoning About Beliefs: Fact, Preference, and Ideology
Heiphetz, Larisa Alexandra; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Harris, Paul Lansley; Banaji, Mahzarin R. (Elsevier BV, 2013)The beliefs people hold about the social and physical world are central to self-definition and social interaction. The current research analyzes reasoning about three kinds of beliefs: those that concern matters of fact ... -
Dissociable Neural Correlates of Stereotypes and Other Forms of Semantic Knowledge
Contreras, Juan; Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Mitchell, Jason Paul (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011)Semantic knowledge refers to the information that people have about categories of objects and living things. Social psychologists have long debated whether the information that perceivers have about categories of people - ... -
Encoding-Specific Effects of Social Cognition on the Neural Correlates of Subsequent Memory
Mitchell, Jason Paul; Macrae, C. Neil; Banaji, Mahzarin R. (Society for Neuroscience, 2004)To examine whether social cognition recruits distinct mental operations, we measured brain activity during social (“form an impression of this person”) and relatively nonsocial (“remember the order in which person information ... -
Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals.
Ho, Arnold K.; Sidanius, James; Levin, Daniel T.; Banaji, Mahzarin R. (American Psychological Association (APA), 2011)Individuals who qualify equally for membership in two racial groups provide a rare window into social categorization and perception. In 5 experiments, we tested the extent to which a rule of hypodescent, whereby biracial ... -
Evidence of System Justification in Young Children
Baron, Andrew; Banaji, Mahzarin R. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)The near ubiquity of ingroup preference is consistent with the view that it is an automatic consequence of social categorization, possibly a basic foundation of intergroup relations. However, research with adults has ... -
The evolution of intergroup bias: Perceptions and attitudes in rhesus macaques.
Mahajan, Neha; Martinez, Margaret A.; Gutierrez, Natashya L.; Diesendruck, Gil; Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Santos, Laurie R. (American Psychological Association (APA), 2011)Social psychologists have learned a great deal about the nature of intergroup conflict and the attitudinal and cognitive processes that enable it. Less is known about where these processes come from in the first place. In ... -
Fair Measures: A Behavioral Realist Revision of "Affirmative Action"
Kang, Jerry; Banaji, Mahzarin R. (California Law Review Inc., 2006)New facts recently discovered in the mind and behavioral sciences have the potential to transform both lay and expert conceptions of affirmative action. Drawing on recent findings in implicit social cognition (ISC) and ... -
First Is Best
Carney, Dana R.; Banaji, Mahzarin R. (Public Library of Science, 2012)We experience the world serially rather than simultaneously. A century of research on human and nonhuman animals has suggested that the first experience in a series of two or more is cognitively privileged. We report three ... -
The Formation of Belief-Based Social Preferences
Heiphetz, Larisa; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Banaji, Mahzarin R. (Guilford Publications, 2014)Beliefs are invisible contents of the mind, yet young children appear able to reason about beliefs in their minds and those of others. In three experiments, the authors explored the previously unanswered question of the ... -
From American City to Japanese Village: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Implicit Race Attitudes
Dunham, Yarrow; Baron, Andrew; Banaji, Mahzarin (Wiley, 2006-09)This study examined the development of implicit race attitudes in American and Japanese children and adults. Implicit ingroup bias was present early in both populations, and remained stable at each age tested (age 6, 10, ... -
Gender Differences in Professional Advancement: The Role of Goals, Perceptions, and Behaviors
Wilmuth, Caroline Ashley (2016-05-19)Women are significantly underrepresented in senior-level positions within organizations. A great deal of research has provided evidence that both demand-side factors (e.g., bias and discrimination) and supply-side factors ... -
Gender Picture Priming: It Works with Denotative and Connotative Primes
Lemm, Kristi M.; Dabady, Marilyn; Banaji, Mahzarin R. (Guilford Publications, 2005)When physical objects or words are encountered, to what extent is their primary semantic meaning also accompanied by secondary social category associates of semantic meaning? Does such an effect occur without conscious ... -
Genuine Social Psychology: Investigations by Mind and Group
Hackman, J. Richard; Banaji, Mahzarin (Portico, 1999-06) -
Implicit Bias Among Physicians and Its Prediction of Thrombolysis Decisions for Black and White Patients
Green, Alexander; Carney, Dana R.; Pallin, Daniel; Ngo, Long; Raymond, Kristal L.; Iezzoni, Lisa; Banaji, Mahzarin (Springer Verlag, 2007)Context: Studies documenting racial/ethnic disparities in health care frequently implicate physicians’ unconscious biases. No study to date has measured physicians’ unconscious racial bias to test whether this predicts ... -
Implicit Gender Stereotyping in Judgments of Fame.
Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Greenwald, Anthony G. (American Psychological Association (APA), 1995)Implicit (unconscious) gender stereotyping in fame judgments was tested with an adaptation of a procedure developed by L. L. Jacoby, C. M. Kelley, J. Brown, and J. Jasechko (1989). In Experiments 1–4, participants pronounced ... -
Implicit Measures Reveal Evidence of Personal Discrimination
Carney, Dana R.; Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Krieger, Nancy (Informa UK Limited, 2010)A well-known result, the person–group discrimination discrepancy (PGDD), shows that members of disadvantaged groups believe that other members of their social groups are discriminated against, but that they themselves are ... -
Implicit race attitudes predict trustworthiness judgments and economic trust decisions
Stanley, Damian A.; Sokol-Hessner, Peter; Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Phelps, Elizabeth A. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011)Trust lies at the heart of every social interaction. Each day we face decisions in which we must accurately assess another individual’s trustworthiness or risk suffering very real consequences. In a global marketplace of ... -
Implicit Stereotyping in Person Judgment.
Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Hardin, Curtis; Rothman, Alexander J. (American Psychological Association (APA), 1993)Three experiments demonstrated implicit gender stereotyping. A target's social category determined the use of previously primed stereotyped information, without Ss' awareness of such influence. After unscrambling sentences ... -
Inferring Character From Faces: A Developmental Study
Cogsdill, Emily J.; Todorov, Alexander T.; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Banaji, Mahzarin R. (SAGE Publications, 2014)Human adults attribute character traits to faces readily and with high consensus. In two experiments investigating the development of face-to-trait inference, adults and children ages 3 through 10 attributed trustworthiness, ... -
The Influence of Beliefs on Children's and Adults' Cognition and Social Preferences
Heiphetz, Larisa Alexandra (2013-09-30)Beliefs--mental representations of particular propositions as true--are fundamental to social cognition. Among the most influential beliefs are ideologies, which concern the way things should be and help people understand ...